万州二中高2014级高三下期第一次月考英语试题（2014.3）

（ 满分：120分 时间：100分钟）

一、单项填空(共15小题;每小题1分，满分15分)

请从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。

例：A computer can only do ________ you have instructed it to do.

A. how B. after C. what D. when

答案是C。

1. I can’t remember when exactly the Smiths left _____city; I only remember it was ____ Monday.

A. a; a B. a; the C. the; a D. the, the

2. — Do you like Mary’s new hair style?

— Perfect! How much ______ she looks with the curly short hair!

A. well B. good C. best D. better

3. I am sorry I didn’t go to the cinema with you yesterday. You know, I ______ the film.

A. saw B. have seen C. had seen D. see

4. Come on! Anybody here can learn the rock climbing at lower heights. There is really ______ to it.

A. everything B. anything C. nothing D. something

5. The old woman carefully sorted out the eggs, ______ them in the basket and headed for the market,

A. put B. to put C. putting D. having put

6. The driver might have had an accident but for the fact that he ____ the car suddenly.

A. braked B. would brake C. had braked D. should have braked

7. The little girl cried for several minutes ______ her mother came to comfort her.

A. unless B. while C. once D. before

8. The majority of people present at the meeting held the view ______ the president said was right.

A. what; that B. that, what C. if, that D. if , what

9. ____ well on the wet road, this kind of car is very popular.

A. Handled B. To hand C. Handling D. Having handled

10. The mother thanked the young man again and again, without ______ help her son would have been washed away in the flood.

A. whom B. his C. whose D. who

11. — ______ you got Wang Feng's stage photo with his autograph?

— Didn't you know I went to his live concert? see? Easy!

A. How it was B. When it was that C. How was it that D. When was it

12. They have been training very hard the whole season, and they ______ win this match.

A. might B. may C. must D. should

13. I really shouldn’t have shouted at my parents like that, but ______.

A. it was none of your business B. I just couldn’t help it

C. I didn’t care about it D. it made no difference

14. The five students the teacher had ____ the old woman in the big fire were praised.

A. rescued B. rescue C. to rescue D. being rescued

15. A case of suspected food poisoning in New York has led to 6 high school students to hospital.

A. being sent B. sent C. sending D. to be sent

二、完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面两篇短文，掌握其大意，然后从16—35各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

A

All of us go through some difficult times as we approach teenage years. It's the age when we have to deal with the most 16 in our life. This transition (shift) from childhood to adulthood is 17 for some, but rough for others. The most important thing about being a teenager is 18 . When we are teenagers, we would get blamed or even punished for anything wrong we do. Unlike before when we were small kids, even if we made a big trouble, we didn’t need to pay anything for it.

It’s all not so bad about being a teenager, though. We don’t have to have our parents take us to somewhere we want to go or we couldn’t go before. We can have 19 with friends or even alone, which we couldn’t have because we were too young to know what pleasure is! It's a very enjoyable time of life. During this age, we are old enough to 20 what is good for us, and make decisions by ourselves without 21 others.

But like the saying goes ‘‘All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue 22 .” During this period, we are having much 23 for our studies. If we don't pass, we won’t get jobs, and things will take a turn for the worse. With the present world economy in _24 , we have to do really, really well in our education for a job. Adults say that their age is the hardest part of life. But I think the transition from a kid to an adult is much harder than being already an adult. What we do in our teenage years will 25 what we become and how we lead our life in the future.

In conclusion, it is quite 26 that parents put much pressure on an already stressed out teenager. If they realized that, living condition for teenagers would be much better.

Thus, for the teens ourselves we should get to know what is best for us. What's more, we should understand the right 27 of life we choose at this age can make us happy for the rest of our existence.

16. A. chances B. changes C. feelings D. expectations

17. A. smooth B. practical C. demanding D. necessary

18. A. knowledge B. independence C. confidence D. responsibility

19. A. fun B. trouble C. relation D. business

20. A. predict B. remember C. imagine D. understand

21. A. guiding B. helping C. inviting D. consulting

22. A. occasionally B. temporarily C. forever D. increasingly

23. A. pressure B. passion C. motivation D. panic

24. A. decline B. hope C. increase D. debt

25. A. reflect B. confirm C. determine D. identify

26. A. vital B. urgent C. common D. unnecessary

27. A. print B. way C. condition D. power

B

Who designed the first helicopter? Who 28 one of the most famous pictures in the world? Who knew more about human body than 29 ? There is an answer to all these questions— Leonardo da Vinci.

Leonardo may have been the greatest genius 30 have ever known. He lived in Italy around the year1500, but many of his inventions seem 31 to us today. For example, one of his notebooks has drawings of a helicopter. Of course, he couldn’t 32 a helicopter with the things he had. But 33 said his idea would have worked. But Leonardo wasn’t just an inventor. He was one of the 34 artists of his day. By the time he was 20, he was called a master painter already, and as he got older he became even more famous. Sometimes he drew a hand in ten different ways before he was ready to paint.

Many of Leonardo’s wonderful paintings are still with us today. You may know one of his most famous works —— the 35 woman known as Mona Lisa.

28 A. took B. made C. painted D. invented

29 A. artists B. doctors C painters D. singers

30 A scientist B. musician C. world D. people

31.A modest B. dull C. modern D. ancient

32.A. draw B. paint C. work D. build

33.A. traders B .explorers C. crew D. scientists

34. A. worst B. kindest C. greatest D. easiest

35. A. interesting B. crying C. smiling D. surprising

三、阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)

请阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项的标号涂黑。

A

Michael J.— “Crocodile Dundee” (also called Mick), played by Paul Hogan, is the main character in the fictional Crocodile Dundee film series consisting of Crocodile Dundee, Crocodile Dundee II, and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles. The character is a crocodile hunter, thus the nickname.

In the first film, Crocodile Dundee, Mick is visited by a New York reporter, Sue Charlton, who travels to Australia to investigate a report she heard of a crocodile hunter, who had his leg bitten off by a crocodile in the outback. The hunter supposedly walked more than a hundred miles back to civilization and miraculously survived his injuries. However, by the time she meets him, the story turns out to be a somewhat exaggerated legend where the “bitten-off leg” turns out to be just being some bad scarring on his leg; a “love bite” as Mick calls it. Still intrigued by the idea of “Crocodile Dundee”, Sue continues with the story. They travel together out to where the incident occurred, and follow his route through the bush to the nearest hospital. Despite his old-fashioned views, the pair eventually become close, especially after Mick saves Sue from a crocodile attack.

Feeling there is still more to the story, Sue invites Mick back to New York with her, as his first trip to a city (or “first trip anywhere,” as Dundee says). The rest of the film depicts（describes）Dundee as a “fish out of water,” showing how, despite his expert knowledge of living outdoors, he knows little of city life. Mick meets Sue’s boyfriend, Richard, but they do not get along. By the end of the film, Mick is on his way home, lovesick, when Sue realizes she loves Mick, too, and not Richard. She runs to the subway station to stop Mick from leaving and, by passing on messages through the packed-to-the-gills crowd, she tells him she won’t marry Richard, and she loves him instead. With the help of the other people in the subway, Mick and Sue have a loving reunion as the film ends.

36. In the film Crocodile Dundee, Mick ________.

A. pretends he was bitten by a crocodile

B. urges Sue Charlton to write his life story

C. shows Sue Charlton around the town he lives in

D. hasn’t been abroad before his trip to America

37. The underlined word “intrigued” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ________.

A. annoyed B. troubled C. interested D. surprised

38. When in New York, Mick ________.

A. makes friends with Richard B. doesn’t know how to fit into city life

C. feels excited about living in a big city C. makes full use of his bush skills

39. The film Crocodile Dundee can be best described as ________.

A. a romantic story B. an action movie

C. a science fiction D. a frightening story

B

Getting sick overseas can be scary. You’re in an unfamiliar place and often don’t speak the language. Although each trip is different, there are universal things you can do to keep safe.

Be prepared. “Schedule a visit with a doctor who specializes in travel or the area you’re visiting at least four weeks before your departure,” says WHO public health expert Dr. Gilles